Improvement in washing-machines



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GEORGE R. NEBINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 108,168, dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part oi the same.

lo all whom, fit may concer-a Be it known that I, Geenen It. Nnrncna, of

Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain Improvements in Clothes-washing Machines, ot' which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawinv.

My invention consists in a horizont-al cylinder' or body, so mounted as to turn freely on its axis, and provided on its interior with longitudinal or corrugated dashers `or rubbers, which stand at an inclination to the wall of thc body, and serve to rnb against the clothes, and to dash them about in the cylinder when the latter revolves.

Figure Il is a side elevation ot' m y machine;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the cylinder and one end of its supporting-frame, the side and end of the former being broken away to show the interior; and

Figure 3 isa perspective view ot' the cank.

.ln constructing my washer, I make a cylindrical body, A, of any suitable material, and provide it at cach end, at the center, with a journal, a, shown.

Inside ot' this cylinder, and extending from end to cndot the same, I secure a number of longitudinallycorrugated dashers or rubbers, B, lyinginclined to the face or wall of' the cylinder, with their outer edges resting against the same, as shown, the dashers all heilig inclined in t-hc same direction, as shown in iig. 2.

The angle or inclination of the dashers may be changed as desired, but 1l find that they answer a very good purpose when their faces stand at about au angle ot' sixty degrees to a radial line drawn from the center ot' the cylinder to thc fixed edge of the dasher.

The cylinder or body thus arranged I mount on its journals a horizontally, in a suitable frame, so that it may turn freely, and then attach a crank, l), to one ofthe journals a, as shown in lig. l.

In using the machine, I introduce the clothes through the door cinto the cylinder, together with the proper amount of water, and then close the door, and turn the cylinder in the direction indicated by the arrow in il.

As the cylinder revolves, the dille-rent dashers B are carried in succession through the water around and ander the mass of clothes; cach dasher, as it descends into thc water, forces the clothes downward into thc water, and toward the opposite side ofthe body, and. it passes around toward the under side, it raises them up and passes under them, anch-finally, as it ascends on thc opposite sido, it raises the clothes in contact with it above the water, and throws theln hack again toward the first side.

In this manner the clothes are thrown constantly back and fort-h from one side to the other, and sonsed into and lifted from the water, and at the same time rubbed in every part by the corrugated faces ot' the dashers or rubbers B.

lhe weight of the mass ot' clothes produces a pressure of them against the dashers fullyequal to that applied in washing by hand in the ordinary manner.

A cert-ain amount of water is carried up by the dashers, and falls back onto the clothes below, and serves to rinse or wash ont of them the dirt loosened by the action of the rubbers.

The machine thus constructed is exceedingly cheap, simple, and etticient, and very easy to operate.

I have found that, with a machine of ordinary size, I can, with ease, wash a dozen shirts in ten minutes time.

My improved crank I construct with a hole, i, through its end, of sullieient sizeto admit the end of the journal, and with a stud, n, which extends inside ot1 hole t', as shown in tig. 3.

In the journal which is to receive the crank I cui; a longitudinal groove, o, having lateral extensions on each side at its inner end, as shown in tig. 2, so that the slot presents a T-form in appearance.

The crnk is applied by slipping it onto the jonrnal with the stud a in the groove o, and pushing it back until the stud is in liuc with the lateral extensions of said groove, and then turning it in either direction, so as that the stud will lock in the extensions.

By this arrangement I obvlate the necessity of cut-- ting a screw-thread on the journals and in the crank, and of all nuts, pins, and other expensive thstenings, and produce for less cost, astrongerand better means of fastening the crank in place.

To remove the crank, it is only necessary to turn it on the journal until the studis in line with thc slot o, and to then draw it off.

When thus attached, the crank may be turned in either direction without becoming loose, a thing which cannot be done where they are simply screwed ou in the usual manner.

This manner of forming and securing the crank is applicable not only to this machine, but to any and all places where a crank is used.

The machine constructed as described answers a ver good purpose as a churn, as the cream introduced therein is violently agitated bythe action of' the dashers I5,

Instead of having the dashcrs attached rigidly to the cylinder, and the whole -so arranged as to rc volvc, the same result may be accomplished by having thc cylinder stationary, and the dasher attached 'to a, skeleton frame therein, so arranged ,that it; may rubbers B, when constructed and arranged to operato revolve, and carry the flashers around in tho oylas herein shown and described.,

inder. GEORGE R. NEBINGER.

Having thus described my invention, l

What I claim is- Witnesses: The washing-machine, consisting of cylinder A, M. PAUL,

.provided on its interior with longitudinal corrugated CHAS. H. DARNELL. 

